Alarm·Software Engineer

Alarm Software Engineer interview experience

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Charlottesville, VAPosted Apr 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying, I got an interview invitation and ended up doing a HackerRank online assessment first.

It was 3 questions over about 120 minutes, and it felt a bit harder than the average “easy coding” screen I’d done elsewhere. Once that finished, I went through an HR interview that was relatively light and mostly behavioral.

Next came a technical interview over Microsoft Teams with a software engineering lead/manager, and I was also joined by two other engineers in the same session. Most of the conversation was behavioral and based on my background, with just one coding question at the end. Overall it felt like they were using the coding challenge to filter, then relying on discussion and a

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